"Irene is a hurricane that poses an extraordinary threat and is one that no one has yet experienced in North Carolina to the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast and New England.

- Locations from eastern North Carolina and the eastern Mid-Atlantic states to Long Island to southern New England are all in the potential path of Hurricane Irene.

- There is historical precedence for a hurricane impacting the major metropolitan areas of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast but these hurricanes are rare.

- However, with apopulation explosion along coastal areas of the Northeast during the past several decades, a hurricane this strong hasn't affected the Northeast urban corridor for at least the past two decades.

- Regardless of track and intensity, Hurricane Irene will cause extensive tree and power line damage. Electricity infrastructure will be greatly compromised for millions if not tens of millions of Americans.

- Extent of water level rise (surge) for local bays, inlets and sounds is dependent on the local geographyhowever suffice to say new high water marks could be set.

"New York is facing an unprecedented hurricane shutdown as officials ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes and a full closure of the city’s public transport network. The sensational news comes as storm experts and politicianstoday laid out an apocalyptic warning of what will happen to Manhattan if Hurricane Irene makes a direct hit on New York City."...

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Climate profiteers often use scary pictures unrelated to the topic they're selling:

ap photo from 1998 in Vacaville, Ca. This picture of a NON man-made climate event 12 years earlier accompanied an article about suffering and desolationto come due to man-made climate change (which they say is too much rain or not enough rain).

Caption next to photo: "Margaret Newfeld is taken to safetyby firefighters in Yountville, Calif., in Feb. 1998. Intense El Nino-fueled rainstorms (El Nino is completely natural and not related to alleged man-caused climate alarmism).

The fast trains connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco would create new communities of high-density apartments and small homes around stations,reducing the suburbanization of California, rail advocates say. That new lifestyle would mean